Plenary Session: Metagenomics

Chair:
Chad Nusbaum, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Location:
Island Ballroom

Agenda:

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

David Relman, Stanford University
Antibiotic Perturbation of the Human Intestinal Microbiota

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 

Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University
What Have We Learned from 100+ Metagenomics?

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

Coffee Break – Capri Ballroom
(Sponsored by Roche Applied Bioscience)

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Garth Ehrlich, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute
Respiratory Bacterical Pathogens Utilize Polyclonal Infections and a Distributed Genome as Population-Based Chronic Virulence Traits

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  

Jonathan Eisen, U.C. Davis
Reference Genomes from Across the Tree:  A Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea